composed of a steel wire frame, with the now familiar leather-blocked top extending from peak to cantle. The Harrington saddles were manufactured for many years by Messrs. William Middlemore at Coventry and Birmingham, Middlemore saddles being still manufactured in the heart of the cycle industry at Coventry; but the "cradle" design is no longer employed. Most
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Fig. 23
THE HARRINGTON CRADLE SPRING SADDLE, FITTED TO THE BACKBONE OF A HIGH BICYCLE
cycle saddles are, however, stretched on a wire frame, either coil springs of the horizontal or vertically-wound type being used to support the leather.
Lamps used on high bicycles were constructed to burn oil: they could not be carried on any fixed portion of the machine whence they could throw a light on the road, so one of the pioneer lamp makers—Salisbury or Lucas—introduced a hub lamp which swung suspended
